They called one day to ask if I could come out and help them figure out why they kept getting mold in their medicine cabinet.  

If you have to artificially monkey with your rehab amounts, etc. to make a property viable...then it isn't.That said, things are tricky when it comes to finding a place you *want* to live.

The result has been an artificial constraint in building the supply of housing that is needed.  

We're definitely in a bubble here in Charleston, but it isn't necessarily artificial.

So the property tends to look artificially good if you don't adjust expenses along with revenues increases.Anyway, I hope this helps.  

There is finance, bio-tech, software, hardware manufacturing, shipping, higher education, artificial intelligence, just to name a few of the industries that are based here. 

It is generally expect to return a minimum of 10%.When you have equity in a property it creates artificial cash flow and in reality reduces your true positive cash flow on a property.For every 100K in equity, valued at a 10% opportunity, you are actually reducing your true cash flow by $866/month (10% return on 100K).A property that can not have true positive cash flow leveraged 100% can never have true positive cash flow since any equity is drawing a 10% return off the top of your monthly rent before all other deductions.

The first is a pain mgmt specialist who just can't wait to get out of medicine Lol. 

I don't know where you plan to practice medicine but falling in love with Ashburn when you have to drive daily to [name any DC metro city not in Loudoun County] could be hellish. 

For instance, if I sell the house to my LLC at above market price, then use the LLC to sell it at market price, I will create artificial loss to lower my tax.